Columbia University’s Cranes Claw Out Brainy, Bland Lab: Review
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On a frigid morning, I walked through Manhattanville, a 17-acre tract at the western edge of Harlem, pausing to watch a crane clawing at the skeletal remains of a parking garage.
These blocks of lumpy warehouses and worn gas stations under elevated road and rail structures slope toward the Hudson River. This area, which stretches from Broadway and 125th street to 12th Avenue and 133rd Street, will become a 6.7-million square foot satellite campus for Columbia University.